No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Man never has what he wants because what he wants is everything.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

It is the focus on the highest ideal day after day that saves life from being wrapped up in small whirlwinds.

[On Hollywood:] This is no town for a come back, people are too unsure of themselves.

[Tony Richardson ] just liked me, knew I was going to be what he wanted [in The Hotel New Hampshire], and that was the end of it. It was unbelievable.

I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be.

Make few acquaintances.